NEW YORK — Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in overall viewership and first in
the demographic group that advertisers covet, CBS unveiled a fall schedule yesterday with four new
comedies and two new dramas.

The win among ages 18 to 49 is the first by CBS since the 1991-92 season.

Both results will give CBS more ammunition when it starts negotiating with advertisers for the
upcoming season.

“The network is alive and healthy,” said CEO Leslie Moonves, adding that CBS has never been more
profitable.

Although the network announced the fewest new shows of any major broadcast network for the
upcoming season, it still managed to shake up its lineup by moving established programs and
benching one of its successful sitcoms until midseason.

“The bar was pretty high,” Moonves said of the scheduling process. “I think our development was
as good as I’ve ever seen it.”

Among the new shows are sitcoms starring Will Arnett, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Robin Williams;
and dramas featuring Dylan McDermott and Marg Helgenberger (formerly of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation).

The new comedies from CBS on Monday are
We Are Men, about four guys who live in the same apartment complex; and
Mom, starring Allison Janney and Anna Faris as a mother and daughter.

The Thursday sitcoms — which will join
The Big Bang Theory and
Two and a Half Men — are
The Millers, starring Beau Bridges and Arnett as a father and son who divorce at the same
time; and
The Crazy Ones, with Williams as an advertising executive and Gellar as his daughter.

Among the more interesting moves by CBS is the scheduling of two series for the 10 p.m. Monday
slot. When the season starts,
Hostages — a drama from producer Jerry Bruckheimer starring McDermott and Toni Collette —
will run for 15 episodes. After
Hostages is done with its run,
Intelligence — which follows a government agent with a Google-like brain and stars
Helgenberger — will run for 13 episodes.

CBS canceled two dramas —
CSI: NY and
Vegas — that each averaged more than 10 million viewers, which is usually considered
successful in today’s fragmented landscape. Another high-profile drama,
Hawaii Five-0, will move from Monday night to Friday night — a demotion because Fridays
generally draw fewer younger viewers.

In another surprising move, CBS will keep
Mike & Molly, the sitcom starring Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy, off the fall
schedule — although 22 episodes have been ordered in anticipation of a new sitcom faltering.

CBS will also move the hit drama
Person of Interest from 9 p.m. Thursday to 10 p.m. Tuesday, where it will follow
NCIS and
NCIS: Los Angeles. That will give CBS a powerhouse lineup of the three most-watched shows
on television in a row — the first time that has happened since the early 1980s, when CBS aired
The Dukes of Hazzard,
Dallas and
Falcon Crest together.

CBS has also canceled
Golden Boy and, after seven seasons,
Rules of Engagement.